Line #14 Music/CelineDion


1	[[quoteright:290:[[RuleOfGlamorous https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/celine_draped_in_luxury_4047.jpg]]]]
2	[[caption-width-right:290:[-HerHeartWillGoOn... [[CashCowFranchise Straight To The Bank]].-] ]]
3	->''Near, far, wherever you are,\
4	I believe that the heart does go on,\
5	Once more you open the door,\
6	And you're here in my heart and my heart will go on and on.''
7	-->-- "[[Film/Titanic1997 My Heart Will Go On]]"
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9	Céline Marie Claudette Dion [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever CC]] (born 30 March 1968) is one of the most popular UsefulNotes/{{Canad\|a}}ian singers of all time. Dion was born and raised in UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}}, ''the'' Canadian province whose majority of populace speak French. Thus, she spent her early years speaking and singing only French. Met her future husband, music manager René Angélil in 1981, who became her manager for the rest of his life (at least until he officially stepped down as his health deteriorated later on). She made her first English recording in 1985 (and recorded in German as early as 1983), but didn't learn to speak the language until several years later. In 1990, with a slew of awards already under her belt in Canada and internationally, she released her first English album, and to this day has maintained successful careers singing in both French and English and has recorded in several other languages, including Spanish and even Japanese. Married René in 1994 and lived happily together along with three sons despite [[MayDecemberRomance the two's age difference]] until René passing due to throat cancer on January 14, 2016, 21 years into their marriage.
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11	Her first American single, "Where Does My Heart Beat Now," hit strongly, and she attracted even more attention through her Oscar- and Grammy-winning theme song to Creator/{{Disney}}'s 1991 [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon animated classic]] ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', but it was a [[BreakthroughHit pair of movie themes]] later in the '90s that made her a true household name: "Because You Loved Me" from ''Up Close and Personal'' and "My Heart Will Go On" from ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}''. In the UK, her 1994 hit "Think Twice" became one of the biggest selling singles of all time despite flopping in North America. She's also dabbled in acting, appearing as herself on shows like ''Series/TouchedByAnAngel'' and taking a dramatic role in ''Des fleurs sur la neige'' (Flowers Under the Snow), a 1991 [[Creator/{{CBC}} Radio-Canada]] miniseries. She has stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and on Canada's Walk of Fame.
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13	Céline had her heart set on international stardom from the beginning, and it in fact began even before she could speak a word of English. Before she was old enough to drive, she'd already won an award at the Yamaha Popular Song Festival in Tokyo and become the first Canadian to earn a gold record in France. Then she represented [[GuestFighter Switzerland]] in the Series/EurovisionSongContest 1988, winning with the song "Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi".[[note]]Meaning "Don't Leave Without Me"; she also recorded the song in German as "Hand in Hand".[[/note]] [[CanonDiscontinuity She's never performed it since]].
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15	After cancelling several 2022 shows due to severe and persistent muscle spasms, Celine [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaOQG4_SuSk would announce in 8 of December of the same year]] that she had been diagnosed with stiff-person syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that affects the nervous system.
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17	Dion made her big-screen acting debut in ''Film/LoveAgain'', where she plays a fictionalized version of herself.
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19	!!Studio discography:
20	!!!French
21	* ''La voix du bon Dieu'' [[labelnote:Translation]]''The Good Lord's Voice''[[/labelnote]] (1981)
22	* ''[[ChristmasSongs Céline Dion chante Noël]]'' [[labelnote:Translation]]''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Céline Dion Sings Christmas]]''[[/labelnote]] (1981)
23	* ''Tellement j'ai d'amour...'' [[labelnote:Translation]]''I Have So Much Love...''[[/labelnote]] (1982)
24	* ''Les chemins de ma maison'' [[labelnote:Translation]]''The Paths of My House''[[/labelnote]] (1983)
25	* ''[[ChristmasSongs Chants et contes de Noël]]'' [[labelnote:Translation]]''Christmas Songs and Tales''[[/labelnote]] (1983)
26	* ''Mélanie'' (1984)
27	* ''C'est pour toi'' [[labelnote:Translation]]''It's For You''[[/labelnote]] (1985)
28	* ''Incognito'' (1987)
29	* ''Dion chante Plamondon'' [[note]]Meaning ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dion Sings Plamondon]]''; this is an album containing songs written by Quebec lyricist, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Plamondon Luc Plamondon]], eight of which are [[CoverAlbum covers]]. This album was released in other Francophone countries as ''Des mots qui sonnent'', meaning ''Words That Resonate''.[[/note]] (1991)
30	* ''D'eux'' [[note]]French for "Of Them", "About Them", or "From Them"; homophonic with deux, meaning "two". This album was released in the United States as ''The French Album''.[[/note]] (1995)
31	* ''S'il suffisait d'aimer'' [[note]]retitled ''S'il suffisait d'aimer (If Only Love Could Be Enough)'' for the American release[[/note]] (1998)
32	* ''1 fille & 4 types'' [[labelnote:Translation]]''1 Girl & 4 Guys''[[/labelnote]] (2003)
33	* ''D'elles'' [[note]]meaning ''About Them'' or ''From Them'', the them here being strictly feminine on account that the songs being written by female songwriters.[[/note]] (2007)
34	* ''Sans attendre'' [[labelnote:Translation]]''Without Waiting''[[/labelnote]] (2012)
35	* ''Encore un soir'' [[labelnote:Translation]]''One More Night''[[/labelnote]] (2016)
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37	!!!English
38	* ''Unison'' (1990)
39	* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Celine Dion]]'' (1992)
40	* ''The Colour of My Love'' (1993)
41	* ''Falling into You'' (1996)
42	* ''Let's Talk About Love'' (1997)
43	* ''These Are Special Times'' (1998)
44	* ''A New Day Has Come'' (2002)
45	* ''One Heart'' (2003)
46	* ''Miracle'' (2004)
47	* ''Taking Chances'' (2007)
48	* ''Loved Me Back to Life'' (2013)
49	* ''Courage'' (2019)
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51	!!Portrayals in fiction
52
53	* ''Céline'', a 2008 Canadian [[MadeForTVMovie television]] {{biopic}} film where she's portrayed by Christine Ghawi.
54	* The 2021 French-Canadian film ''Film/{{Aline\|2021}}'' is a somewhat comedic NoCelebritiesWereHarmed biopic of her life, with the main character, played by Creator/ValerieLemercier, being renamed "Aline Dieu".
55	* ''Film/LoveAgain'', a 2023 romcom in which she plays a version of herself encouraging the leads to fall in love. The soundtrack also features new music by her.
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57	!!My tropes will go on:
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59	* AdamWesting: In the "Ashes" music video for ''Film/Deadpool2'', being deeply offended when she's told her performance is ''too good'' and [[AccidentalMisnaming mistakes Deadpool for]] ComicBook/SpiderMan.
60	* AllJustADream: Her first single ''Ce n'etait qu'un reve'' actually translates into this. The song was co-written by her mother.
61	* AllWomenLoveShoes: She once told Creator/EllenDeGeneres that she had over 3000 pairs of shoes. Also, in a Carpool Karaoke, Creator/JamesCorden, who suspected she might have as many as ten thousand pairs, made her donate some of her shoes to passerbys in Las Vegas, much to her personal horror.
62	* AmbiguouslyChristian: Like many Quebecers, Céline was raised Roman Catholic. She married and buried her husband in Montreal's Notre-Dame Basilica, has recorded songs with religious and gospel overtones such as "Call the Man" and "The Prayer," and has been known to make the Sign of the Cross during her shows. However, she says organized religion has never been a big part of her life and she is more spiritual than religious. Part of this stems from a sour experience her mother had with a priest, who barred her from his church when she told him off for meddling in her home life.
63	-->'''Céline:''' ''[in a 2014 interview with the Toronto Star newspaper]'' I say that to believe in yourself is to believe in God. For me, God is life itself, the birds, the air, the sunrise and the sunset, the children. Yes, that is where I find God. ... The priest said, "Then I banish you from the house of God." She replied, "As far as I’m concerned, I’m the God in here with my children. This is the house that I believe in." That is the way we were raised. That is the strength and belief we had. I didn't have to go to church and get on my knees to find something to hold onto.
64	* AwardBaitSong:
65	** It started early in her career, with her song "Tellement j'ai d'amour pour toi" ("I Have So Much Love for You") winning the Best Popular Song award at the Yamaha Popular Song Festival in Tokyo when she was 14. Six years later, she won Eurovision with "Ne partez pas sans moi" ("Don't Leave Without Me"), which represented Switzerland. ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' continued the trend once her English recording career started, and she went on to sing a few more, winning some Grammys (such as "Because You Loved Me") and Oscars ("My Heart Will Go On") along the way. Parodied with "Ashes" in ''Film/Deadpool2.''
66	** ''Film/BicentennialMan'''s ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYjqojwp2hQ Then You Look At Me]]''. It doesn't describe any specific moment in the story, but is used as the love song between Andrew and Portia (with Little Miss substituting for her childhood years). The official music video [[VideoFullOfFilmClips takes clips from the relationship]] and displays them in a monitor in the background.
67	* BadassBoast: A humerous one in the video for "Ashes."
68	-->'''Deadpool:''' [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously That was an eleven!]] We need you to take it down to a five, five and a half tops. Just phone it in!
69	-->'''Céline Dion:''' Listen! ''(points to her throat)'' ''This'' thing only goes to eleven! So beat it, Spiderman!
70	-->'''Deadpool:''' God, I should have asked Music/NSync.
71	* BathtubScene: In "Misled".
72	* BoyishShortHair: She sported this during the ''One Heart'' era. She also sported short hair during the ''The Colour of My Love'' and ''Falling Into You'' eras, though less boyishly so.
73	* ChristmasSongs: Céline has ''three'' Christmas albums. Her two French-language Christmas albums, ''Céline Dion chante Noël'' (Céline Dion Sings Christmas) and ''Chants et contes de Noël'' (Songs and Stories of Christmas), were both released during her teens (the latter album actually includes only two new songs, with the balance being songs from the first Christmas album and a few Christmas stories). Her third Christmas album, 1998's ''These Are Special Times'', was her first in English and her best-selling, with more than 12 million copies sold worldwide, and also features her duets with Music/RKelly ("I'm Your Angel") and Music/AndreaBocelli ("The Prayer").
74	** She also contributed two tracks to a 1993 Christmas album by Canadian super-producer David Foster, a version of "The Christmas Song" (which was also included on ''These Are Special Times'') and an all-star version of "White Christmas" with the other vocalists who performed on the album.
75	* CoolCar: Advertised Chrysler cars for a time in the 2000s, [[https://youtu.be/1N84kJ7FZIk?si=HiR7LiYHhKLANYIL including the slick Crossfire roadster]].
76	* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: There was once a song by Jean Jacques Goldman called ''Puisque tu pars'', which is basically the complaint of a parent who sees their child leave them to experience life in the outside world. Then Céline decided to [[TranslatedCoverVersion sing it in English]], with lyrics that have [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning nothing to do with the original's]]. You might know her version as "Let's Talk About Love".
77	** Another song written by Goldman was her iconic French song "Pour que tu m'aimes encore", which a year later she re-recorded in English as "If that's what it Takes". At best, it only bares a slight resemblance to the original lyrics.
78	* CoverVersion: She has sung quite a number of covers.
79	** Dion's set list on her 2019 ''Courage'' world tour included "You're the Voice," a song originally recorded in 1986 by former Music/LittleRiverBand lead singer John Farnham and later covered by Music/{{Heart\|Band}}. Neither Farnham's nor Heart's version was a hit in the U.S. despite big international success for Farnham's, and it's possible many of Dion's American fans didn't know the song until they heard her sing it.
80	** TranslatedCoverVersion: Her early French songs exhibit several French-translated English songs, and some of her English albums contain songs that are translated from French songs, some hers (i.e. "Fly" on ''Falling Into You''), some others'. She also recorded "All by Myself" in Spanish (as "Sola otra vez" ("Alone Again")) and has covered some of her French songs in other languages, including Spanish ("L'amour existe encore" as "Aún existe amor") and German (the Eurovision-winning "Ne partez pas sans moi" with the GratuitousEnglish title "Hand in Hand"). She has also occasionally sung in other languages such as Japanese, Italian, and even Mandarin.
81	*** One particularly interesting case is the song "Have a Heart" on Dion's first English-language album, ''Unison''. The song was originally written in English and was one of the first songs she learned while preparing for her English-language debut, but Dion had Eddy Marnay write French lyrics to the song and recorded it in that language first (as "Partout je te vois" ("I See You Everywhere")), on her 1987 album ''Incognito''.
82	*** CBS' original plans to have Dion's English-language debut be a track-by-track remake of ''Incognito'' with new English lyrics were scrapped after Dion got rave reviews for her performance of "Have a Heart" at the 1989 Juno Awards and a buzz began building around the young chanteuse. As a result, CBS increased the budget for the album, and "Have a Heart"/"Partout je te vois" ended up being the only song ''Unison'' and ''Incognito'' had in common (and even that song was completely re-recorded rather than reusing the instrumental track from ''Incognito'' as had been the original plan).
83	*** After its usage in the soundtrack for a SoapOpera a year prior, the little-known, [[Music/TheBeeGees Bee Gees]]-penned "Immortality" got a TranslatedCoverVersion thanks to Music/SandyEJunior, and their version, at least in the duo's home country of Brazil, has arguably eclipsed the original in popularity.
84	** "It's All Coming Back to Me Now", originally recorded by Pandora's Box, a girl group conceived by producer Music/JimSteinman, who later reused much of the track for Dion's version.
85	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Some of her older videos were shot this way, such as ''All by Myself'', ''Je Sais Pas'' and ''Water from the Moon''. Even some of her album covers are also monochromes, such as ''D'eux'', ''D'Elles'', ''Unison'', ''Loved Me Back To Life''.
86	* DomesticAbuse: Her song, "This Time", is about being a victim of domestic abuse, as well as a resolve to get out.
87	-->''The last thread has come undone\
88	To reveal what I've become\
89	Another victim of poisoned love.''
90	* DramaticChoirNumber: The live version of "Let's Talk About Love" on her eponymous live tour has a children's choir or a group of children from charities joining her singing the song.
91	* {{Escapism}}: It's in the lyrics of her song "Je danse dans ma tête" ("I Dance Inside My Head"), with the narrator describing how she escapes into herself to cope with the boredom and monotony of everyday life.
92	* FairytaleWeddingDress: Her wedding dress, aside from being beautiful as expected from wedding dresses, came with a fancy crown and mink coat.
93	* FauxFluency: Céline started singing phonetically in other languages, including English and German, early in her career, when she still spoke only French fluently. She also sang English-language hits like "Film/{{Flashdance}}... What a Feeling" in concert before she learned to speak the language. However, Rene insisted she become fluent in English before he'd agree for her to do an English album, so she took a Berlitz course and by 1988 was comfortable enough with the language to hold her own in interviews. Meanwhile, Céline has continued to record in other languages in which she is not fluent, including Spanish, Italian and even Japanese.
94	* TheFourLoves: Especially in her French discography, though aside from romantic love, she generally only dabbles in family love.
95	* GratuitousEnglish: Quite a few of her French songs include a few English lines just because.
96	** Among the earliest examples is "Hello Mister Sam", where there is a "It's all right, oh, it's all right" in the chorus.
97	** "Je danse dans ma tete" ("I'm dancing in my head") has the following lines near the final chorus:
98	---> Dehors les néons s'allument (The neon lights outside), All right!\
99	J'préfère regarder la lune (I prefer watching the moon), All night!
100	*** On the same album (''Dion chante Plamondon'' aka ''Des mots qui sonnent'' in Europe), the song "Des mots qui sonnent" ("Words That Sound") has quite a bit of this (phrases like "Come on baby", "Right on", "Top ten" and "Number one") in addition to [[ShoutOut name-dropping]] Music/MichaelJackson and Music/{{Sting}}.
101	** "Tous Les Blues Sont Ecrits Pour Toi" (All the blues written for you") is practically a half-English song, with a few phrases such as "I woke up this morning, baby", "Nobody knows" and "Nobody cares" even being repeated a few times during the song. Notably, it's the only French song she performed on the U.S. leg of her 2019 ''Courage'' tour.
102	** Her French Christmas song "Petit Papa Noel" has a few English lines in the middle.
103	** A non-French case: Her Japanese rendition of "Be The Man" has a few English lines, such as the song title, "I will follow you" and "I will run, I'll run to you", that are left untranslated, following a trend often seen in Japanese pop music.
104	* GratuitousFrench: On the flipside, she occasionally sings English songs that contain a few French lines.
105	** One of her first English songs, "Love by Another Name", contains the line "Si ce n’est pas l’amour, Qu’est-ce que c’est?" (If it isn't love, what is it?) at the end of the chorus.
106	** Her rendition of Brahmm's Lullaby is English but has some French lines in the middle.
107	** Her English song "Je T'aime Encore" is fully English except for that specific phrase (while the French version of that song, "Et Je T'aime Encore", is fully French).
108	** In 1993, she recorded "White Christmas" with a host of other stars, including Music/JohnnyMathis, Wynonna Judd, Tammy Wynette and Tom Jones, for producer David Foster's Christmas album, and sang a few lines of the song in French.
109	* HerHeartWillGoOn: Her biggest hit is, of course, the TropeNamer.
110	* IdenticalStranger: Used in her old French video of ''Fais Ce Que Tu Voudras'' (''Do Whatever You Would Want''), where there are three Dions at different parts of a train station.
111	* IncompatibleOrientation: ''Ziggy (Un Garcon Pas Comme Les Autres)'', cover from Theatre/{{Starmania}}.
112	* IncrediblyLongNote: Very common. Listen to "If You Asked Me To", "The Power Of Love", "All By Myself", "D'amour ou d'amitié", "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" and "My Heart Will Go On" for some examples. Sometimes she even adds long notes to her live performances of songs that normally don't have them, such as "Tous Les Blues Sont Ecrits Pour Toi".
113	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: "I Love You, Goodbye" is basically this.
114	--> Oh, I could say that I'd be all you need, but that would be a lie\
115	I know I'd only hurt you, I know I'd only make you cry
116	* LargeHam: She's not as overblown as Music/MariahCarey, but given her penchant for an IncrediblyLongNote, Celine can get quite passionate. Just witness her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFDHryC6Vwg#t=50s imitating other singers...]]
117	* TheLostLenore: Her love interest -- a male example of the trope -- in the video for "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" is this to her.
118	* LyricVideo: Starting from ''Loved Me Back To Life'', she began to release these kind of music videos every now and then.
119	* MassiveNumberedSiblings: She is the youngest of ''fourteen'' children.
120	* TheMakeover: Her 1987 album ''Incognito'' was a deliberate attempt to leave behind her younger awkwardness by recasting the then-19-year-old as a sophisticated, sexy young woman, both in her image and in the subject matter of her songs.
121	* MayDecemberRomance: René Angélil was 26 years older than Celine. They first met when she was 12 and their relationship (officially) began 7 years later. It was ''another'' 7 years before they were actually married. In an interesting twist, ''she'' pursued ''him'', despite his initial discomfort. He even made it a point to not be alone in a room with her so as not to encourage her. Celine's mother tried to dissuade her to no avail.
122	** During a 1992 appearance on ''Regis and Kathie Lee'', Céline acted rather coy when asked if she had a boyfriend. She admitted she did, but didn't disclose that it was her manager who was 26 years her senior.
123	* MedalOfDishonor: In 1990, she won "Best English Speaking Artist" in Felix Award (the Quebec Grammys). She rejected the award - ''on live television'' - because, despite the pride she felt in her English-language album, she had always been primarily a Francophone artist, adding, "Everywhere I go, I'm proud to say that I am Quebeccoise." Instead, she suggested that the award's name be changed into "''Quebec Artist Achieving Most Success in A Language Other Than French''". Angelil even suggested that the Felix awards committee nominating her as an Anglophone artist was an insult. Some non-Francophone Quebecers took Dion's remarks themselves as an insult, believing she was implying that non-French speakers were not "real" Quebecers. (Angelil clarified that this was not Dion's intent at all.)
124	* MesACrowd: She split into copies of herself in her video ''Et s'il n'en restait qu'une (je serais celle-là)'' (which translates into ''[[StealthPun And If There Was Only One Woman Left (I Would Be That One)]]'')
125	* MultiTakeCut: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYjqojwp2hQ Then You Look At Me]]'', by Music/CelineDion, has Dion in the middle of a [[TechnologyPorn lab where they're building NDR114 robots]]. Dion stays in one spot, [[ThreeMinutesOfWrithing dancing in a skimpy outfit]], while the camera jumps around the entire room, sometimes focusing on her from the front, the sides, or on all the equipment.
126	* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Céline herself is named after the song ''Céline'' by Hugues Aufray. Her first son, René [[OddNameOut Charles]] Dion Angélil, is a bit complicated case of this, as the name Charles was actually taken from her grandfather. Her younger twin sons are more straightforward: Eddy (after Eddy Marnay, Francophone songwriter who collaborated with her early in her career) and Nelson (after Nelson Mandela, South Africa's most famous president).
127	* NationalAnthem: As a teenager, Céline sang both the Canadian and American anthems before sporting events in Montreal. Her take on "The Star-Spangled Banner" was particularly impressive given that she spoke barely any English at the time. She also sang "O Canada" in both French and English.
128	* NavelDeepNeckline: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYjqojwp2hQ Then You Look At Me]]'', by Music/CelineDion, has Dion in [[SpyCatsuit tight metallic coveralls]] with the zipper down to her abdomen.
129	* NunTooHoly: One of her old French songs, ''La Religieuse'' (''The Nun'') has shades of this, with the eponymous nun having had some romantic affairs in the past.
130	* OhCrap[=/=]OOCIsSeriousBusiness: She normally stays out of talks when it came to politics, especially about other countries; Celine tearfully criticized George Bush’s Iraq War and response to Katrina during her interview on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXD4BGvPngM Larry King in 2005]]. Considering the situations happening at time and the fact she grew up in poverty, [[YouAreNotAlone who can honestly blame her]]?
131	* OminousPipeOrgan: What better instrument to accompany a song about nuns (''La Religieuse'')?
132	* PimpedOutDress: A couple in her videos, with the one in ''Immortality'' being a stand-out (given the ballroom setting).
133	** Also her wedding [[http://images.wedding-dress-secret.com.s3.amazonaws.com/badcelebwedding/3.jpg attire]]. And how!
134	* PowerBallad: Most of her discography in the 1990s (at least in English). She became more or less the most prominent power ballad performing after the reigning king of the genre (Music/MichaelBolton) declined in popularity by the middle of that decade. Coincidentally, the first time she toured the United States in 1991 was as Michael Bolton's opening act.
135	* PowerHair: Her hairdo during the early 90s. Incidentally, this is also when she started rising to power in music industry.
136	* PrecisionFStrike: Dion is almost never known to swear at all, except for these very rare occasions:
137	** The song "I Got Nothing Left" on 2007's ''Taking Chances'' is the first known instance she puts a strong word in a song: "When it came to loving me, you just weren't concerned / You never gave a damn so I guess now it's my turn".
138	** The track "Perfect Goodbye" on 2019's ''Courage'' features another rare instance of Dion cursing, and perhaps the first instance of her using a word that would be censored if the song were played on U.S. radio: "This sh*t is perfect."
139	** CensoredForComedy during her Karaoke Pool stint, where at one point she was bleeped upon hearing James Corden's take on "It's All Coming Back To Me Now".
140	* PrettyInMink: Her wedding dress came with a white mink jacket as her wedding was held in winter.
141	** Wore a white fox wrap (and probably [[NakedInMink nothing else]] other than {{Jewelry}}) for a magazine shoot; See the page picture.
142	* RhymesOnADime: Her French song ''Attendre'' has plenty of rhyming lines.
143	* ScareChord: During the intro of ''It's All Coming Back To Me Now''. The music video utilizes this to represent the exact moment her love interest was killed.
144	* SatelliteCharacter: Her entire family is famous in Quebec mostly because of her. Her mom, the late Thérèse Dion - known popularly as Maman Dion (Mommy Dion) - had her own cooking show (and also wrote her daughter's first single). Her old sister, Claudette Dion, is also a singer, though she remained strictly local and target a older audience. Her siblings as a whole produced a few albums, mostly under the name "La Famille Dion" (The Dion Family). And the deaths of both of her parents (her father, Adhemar, in 2003, and Maman Dion in January 2020), as well as of her brother Daniel, were widely covered in the news, while her husband's death and funeral became a national affair.
145	** Her manager and husband, René Angelil can also be considered as such. He was originally a singer as a member of the Quebec pop-rock group Les Barronnets (a Beatles knock-off who, like most group of that kind in Quebec at the time, sung mostly French covers of English-language song), but she's the main reason he made it so big.
146	*** Of course, he now has his own satellite characters - in Quebec, if an artist gets picked up by René Angelil, you know he or she is gonna be a big star, at least in the French-speaking world. Prior to meeting Celine, Angelil managed the career of Rene Simard, a Quebec pop singer so well known even in English Canada that he was parodied on ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision'' as Rene Sitard. Angelil even made a cameo as an Mafia Godfather in a recent movie ''Omertà''- every Quebec critics said it was perfect casting as soon as it was announced.
147	* SelfDeprecation: She's ''really'' good at taking a joke. When [=SNL=] was doing their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPwLSl_IWSI parodies of her]] in the wake of the success of ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}},'' she found it absolutely hilarious and even invited Ana Gasteyer to do her impression of her at one of her concerts.
148	* SelfTitledAlbum: Not her first but her ''second'' English-language album, released in 1992.
149	* SesameStreetCred: Céline guest-starred on a 1998 episode of ''Series/SesameStreet'', singing the song "Happy to Meet You" with a StarstruckSpeechless Herry Monster, Big Bird, and Elmo.[[note]]As an aside, both Céline and Jerry Nelson, Herry Monster's Muppet performer, lost loved ones to cystic fibrosis: Céline's favorite niece, Karine, and Jerry's daughter, Christine, both died from the disease at a young age.[[/note]]
150	* ShoutOut: The song "A New Day Has Come" features a reference to being "touched by an angel." Dion guest-starred as herself in an episode of [[Series/TouchedByAnAngel the CBS series of the same name]], and re-recorded her early '90s hit "Love Can Move Mountains" (which she also sang in the show) for the series' soundtrack album. It went both ways, as Dion's episode featured a character named Cornelia (played by Mika Boorem) who was such a fan of hers that she nicknamed ''herself'' "Celine."
151	** Her song "Des mots qui sonnent" ("Words That Resonate") includes a lyrical shout-out to both Music/MichaelJackson and Music/{{Sting}}, with the narrator ordering a songwriter to write her a song with the best qualities of both performers.
152	* TheShowMustGoOn: Played straight, as Dion released a cover version of the Music/{{Queen}} song of that title after the deaths of her husband and brother. Also, she went ahead with a concert in Miami the day after her mother's death, dedicating the show to her and performing a rendition of [[Creator/JudyGarland Judy Garland's]] "[[SomewhereSong Over the Rainbow]]" as an encore while a photo of her mother displayed behind her.
153	* ShowerScene: In some videos, though she's never the one showering.
154	* SingingVoiceDissonance: She sings in French with only the biggest Québecois accent. When she speaks too, her accent's so thick, a common joke is that even the people of Québec have trouble understanding what she says. And her Quebecois dialect is also much more noticeable when speaking English than when singing in it - which has become even more noticeable in recent years as the dialect has actually thickened.
155	** When she made her first English-language recording in 1985, "Listen to the Magic Man," her diction was flawless, even though she was singing phonetically then and didn't understand the lyrics.
156	* TechnologyPorn: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYjqojwp2hQ Then You Look At Me]]'', by Music/CelineDion, takes place in a lab where they're building NDR114 robots. Dion stays in one spot, [[ThreeMinutesOfWrithing dancing in a skimpy outfit]], while the camera [[MultiTakeCut jumps around the entire room]], sometimes focusing on all the equipment and the engineers working on the construction.
157	* ThreeMinutesOfWrithing: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYjqojwp2hQ Then You Look At Me]]'', by Music/CelineDion, features Dion in [[SpyCatsuit tight metallic coveralls]] with the zipper [[NavelDeepNeckline down to her abdomen]]. She's dancing in place, mostly with her arms.
158	* TruckDriversGearChange: The number of songs she has sung ''without'' this probably doesn't reach double digits. In fact, she's been doing gear change ever since her first single ''C'est n'etait qu'un reve''.
159	* {{Tsundere}}: Her duet with Luciano Pavarotti, "I Hate You Then I Love You", is the more obvious example. It's in the title!
160	* VocalEvolution: Most noticeable in her 80s French albums, from her first album that was released when she was just 13, to her late-80s albums just before she went English. After that her voice still underwent changes, but not as drastic.
161	* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: The narrator of "Everybody's Talkin' My Baby Down" on ''The Colour of My Love'' is determined to stay true to her man despite criticism from friends and relatives wondering why she stays with him. This seems to be an answer to those who criticized her relationship with René, see MayDecemberRomance entry above. She would marry him about a year after the album's release.
162	* WhereItAllBegan: Her wedding was held in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_Basilica_(Montreal) Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal]]. [[BookEnds René Angelil's funeral later was also held in the same place]].
163	* {{Yarling}}: Not a perpetual offender, but she did this sometimes in the 90's, best shown in "That's the Way It Is", where every instance of the word "love" is sung with a pronounced yarl.

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